14th Nov 2013

Sir Mark Walport, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, has announced major funding towards sustainable fuels during a visit to India. Over £4M of UK funding, with matched resource from India, has been awarded to four research projects that bring together expertise in sustainable bioenergy and...

13th Nov 2013

There are plenty of new UK Arabidopsis papers to catch up on this week, including new research from the Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Dundee and Nottingham, Imperial College London and Rothamsted Research. Four out of six of this week's papers are published in open access journals,...

4th Nov 2013

Lots of protein/peptide characterisation work in this week’s Arabidopsis Research Round-Up! We highlight two papers from the lab of Ive de Smet, now at VIB in Belgium but previously based at the University of Nottingham. We also have new work featuring scientists at the University of Glasgow, and...

23rd Oct 2013

Scientists have misunderstood one of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants because they have been looking at the wrong flower, according to University of Leeds researchers.
Arabidopsis thaliana has become the dominant model plant in genetics research because of its simple...

22nd Oct 2013

Matsoukas IG, Massiah AJ and Thomas B. Starch metabolism and antiflorigenic signals modulate the juvenile-to-adult phase transition in Arabidopsis. Plant, Cell & Environment, September 2013. DOI: 10.1111/pce.12088.
In case you missed it when it was first published online in April, the...